When I was a kid in the back seat of my parents’ 1966 Mustang, I remember going north on the Central Expressway in Dallas and seeing the highway signs directing travelers north to Sherman. I asked my dad where Sherman was and he said it was a town near the Oklahoma border. I don’t think I’ve ever actually been to Sherman, but seeing the town’s name on those big green signs always triggered fond childhood memories when I returned to Dallas years later.Now I hear TxDOT has altered directional signs for the Central Expressway by replacing Sherman with McKinney. There wasn’t much going on in McKinney when U.S. 75 became an expressway in the Fifties, but now the Collin County seat has a population of about 110,000. As such, it is a much more suitable “principle city” than Sherman.
It’s a sensible enough change, but I’m going to miss Sherman.
Photo by Louis DeLuca/Dallas Morning News
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Not that this defines Sherman as a destination location, but the Texas 4000 team's Rockies route went through Sherman this year, and stayed overnight before heading to Ardmore the next day - I remember calling their media outlets to get the team coverage.
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